Window-bead fastener.



PATENTED AUG. 4, 1903. G. H. PARKER. WINDOW BEAD PASTENER.

21.011 FILED JUNE 27, 1902.

i 11:. I a MUN} m Patented August 4, 19GB.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE H. PARKER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSSIGNOR TO GUSTAV E.

WALTER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WlNDOW-BEAlD FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 735,143, dated August 4, 1903.

Application filed June 27, 1902.

T0 (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. PARKER, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Window-Bead Fasteners, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. 1

This invention relates to window-frames; and its object is to provide a new and useful construction of window-frame, such that a section thereof may be removed to allow the sash to be swung inwardly or for other purposes, and also to provide a convenient and effective means for locking and unlocking said removable part of the frame.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangements of parts hereinafter fully described and the novel features of which will be specifically pointed out in the claim.

An embodiment of the invention is illustrated in the drawings, in which-- Figure 1 is a perspective showing an ordinary window-frame with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective, on an enlarged scale, showing the partingstrip, the front stop, and a removable section of the front stop as it appears when it is being lifted away from the frame. Fig. 3 is a sectional detail showing the means for looking the removable section to the frame. Fig. 4 is a section of the socket-plate. Fig. 5 is a detail of a key adapted to be used to lock and unlock the removable section.

Similar reference characters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The casing of the window is designated generally by A, and the sashes by 2. The parting-strip 3 between the two sashes is of the usual construction, as herein shown, and the front stop 4 is shown as provided with a removable section 5, held and locked thereto by the means to be described later. It will be understood that any desired portion of the front stop of the parting-strip or other portion of the frame may be made removable and held in position in this way when desired; but the invention is sufficiently. illuserial No. 113,413. (No model.)

trated by showing it in connection with a single removable section. The front stop is cut away or beveled to form a scarfed joint, as at 6, between the fixed part 4 and the removable section 5. At any suitable point or points along the frame A where the front stop would be placed are sockets or apertures 7, each closed by a plate 8, suitably secured around the edges thereof. This plate is adapted to cooperate with a pin 9, rotatably seated in the stop-section 5 and provided at one end with a cross-pin 10 and at the other with a head or plate 11. The plate 8 has an elongated aperture therein corresponding with the length of the pin 10, such that when the pin 10 registers with the said aperture the pin 9 may be inserted in the socket or withdrawn therefrom, and when it has been inserted and turned so that the pin 10 is at right angles with the aperture in the holding-plate 8 it will prevent it from being withdrawn. One or more of those looking devices may be used in connection with any removable section.

In order to more securely and firmly lock the stop-section 5 to the frame, the plate 8 is preferably made with opposing cam-surfaces 8 and 8*, as by bending down the plate at opposite ends of the aperture and in opposite directions, the cam-surface S on one side of the plate being clearly shown in Fig. 4. It will thus be understood that when the locking-pin is turned so as to register with the socket-plate the stop-section may be put in place, and then upon turning the pin 9 the two will be clamped firmly together.

I provide also a novel and convenient means of turning the locking-pin, which consists in making a plurality of holes or depressions 12 in the head 11, in which are to be inserted the lugs o st uds 13 upon a key, designated generally y B, as shown in Fig. 5. This key is similar to the key shown in an application previously filed by me on May 17, 1902, Serial No. 107,740, and may be used both for the purpose as described herein as a means for locking and unlocking the movable stop-section and also as a separable member of a hinge or swinging device by which the sashes may be swung with reference to the frame,

as fully set forth in said application. It is accordinglypossible to use the same member both as a pass-key for the device by which the window is swung and as a means for unlocking the movable section of the frame or stop, which must be removed prior to the swinging of the Window. The specific construction of pass-key, as shown in Fig. 5, is not herein claimed per se, as it is claimed in the aforesaid application, it being only claimed herein in combination with the looking device with which it is adapted to be used, and other forms of pass-key shown in said application can also be used with the present locking device.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Iuawindow-bead fastener,awindow-frame, a stop or strip thereon, having a removable section, a socket in said frame, a plate closing said socket having an aperture therein and cam-surfaces on opposite sides of said apertures, a locking-pin rotatably seated in said stop or strip in position to register with said socket, a cross-pin carried by said locking-pin which is adapted to coact with the cam-surfaces, said locking-pin having a flat head 11 provided with an opening or openings adapted to receive a key which coacts with said opening or openings and by which the said locking-pin is turned to lock or unlock the stop from the frame, substantially as and in the manner set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

GEORGE H. PARKER.

Vitnesses:

H. H. SEAMANS, I. O. DELANEY. 

